Re: mouse-drag-and-drop-region

[martin rudalics]

>> (8) Read-only text should be handled.  An attempt to drop text into a
>>       read-only area should be signalled to the user.  An attempt to cut
>>       text from a read-only text/buffer should be signalled as well.
>
> For the latter, we copy text instead (cf C-w in read-only text).  So I
> think this feature should behave similarly, at least by default.

I just noticed that the code does use ‘kill-region’ already.  This has
the side-effect of putting the text into the kill ring, something which
should be documented at least.  But I think the code should rather use
‘delete-region’ instead with the behavior you proposed.

martin